America citizens have a right to be opposed to the conflict in Iraq. Other America citizens have a right to support our nation in its effort to actually fight the terrorists who are trying to destroy our country. They have a right to vote for whomever they want—voting for either the candidate who desires to end the conflict or the candidate who wants to continue it (if such a choice exists). However, I would like to at least once have those who oppose the conflict actually present valid arguments instead of emotional dribble and lying at every turn. The latest example was printed in the editorial pages of the Peoria Journal Star on 10/16/05.
Here are some examples as printed in the letter to the editor. “Call your legislators and demand the return of our children, mostly poor, and minority youth.” I imagine that by the use of the term children she means sons and daughters because last I knew one could not join the military until age eighteen and at that age they are considered to be adults in our society. Secondly, last I knew the U.S. does not have a draft system. Therefore, every single person who is in the military has chosen to be in the military. Do these people believe we are still fighting the Vietnam Conflict? According to their arguments, they do.
“Our treasury is being plundered as we spend over a billion dollars a week on this quagmire, with no end in sight.” Here are my dictionary definitions of plunder (the verb). 1a: to take the goods of by force (as in war): pillage, sack 1b: to take by force or wrongfully: steal, loot 2: to make extensive use of as if by plundering: use or use up wrongfully: to commit robbery or looting. (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition; Merriam-Webster, Incorporated; Springfield, Massachusetts; 1995.) Does she know something that the rest of us do not? Last time I knew, all money being spent in the Conflict is coming from the U.S. treasury with the approval of Congress through the legal appropriation of money. If it is not being done legally, she should provide the evidence so the culprits can be tried for their crimes. If it is being done legally, by definition it can not be plundered.
Yes, war is expensive and some times takes a long time. Maybe, the terrorists should not have attacked us, but they did. If I remember correctly, during one of the years of World War II; we spent more money on the war than our entire GNP for that year. Should we have stopped fighting World War II and brought the military home because they were dying and because it was costing too much money. If we had, we wouldn’t be concerned about this conflict because we’d all probably be speaking German. Speaking of Germany, we still have troops stationed there. We have troops stationed in Japan. After fighting the Korean Conflict, another conflict where our men died and we spent tons of money, we still have troops there. Yes, we may have to have troops in Iraq in the foreseeable future, freedom and democracy demand sacrifice. Sacrifice that most of us would prefer not to make but sacrifice that must be made in order to protect the freedom we have. Why do these people conveniently forget that we are at war and we did not start the war. Of course, by their logic, if we lay down our arms the terrorists will also lay down their arms. NOT!!!
“But this was never about freedom; it’s an occupation in an oil-rich region where we have installed a government that is arguably more repressive than the one it replaced.” Is she serious? These comments would be laughable if they weren’t so ridiculous. How does she know the conflict is about oil and not about freedom? Who gave her this great insight? How did she get into the minds of our leaders? Is she at the discussion table where all this evil plotting and planning is going on? Actually, if it is about oil, we should be invading Canada. We get more oil from them that any other nation, they are closer, and I suspect would be easier to conquer. Man, our leaders just are not bright enough to know who to attack for our oil.?!
By the way, the same ridiculous and untrue argument was used during the Vietnam Conflict. It’s cheaper to buy the oil that it is to fight wars over it. Plus, the history of the U.S. is not to control conquered territory but to turn them into democracies or at least try—Germany, Japan, Afghanistan, Iraq. The day the letter was printed the front page story was the election to approve the new Iraqi Constitution. (Of course, according to these libertines all this is just the trappings of democracy; Iraq is not capable of being democratic according to them and therefore we should not waste our time trying.)
The one line that infuriates me most is this: “we have installed a government that is arguably more repressive than the one it replaced.” Does she seriously believe that we are so stupid and gullible to believe that the present democratically elected Iraqi government is more repressive than Saddam Hussein’s government? The present government is fighting a war to protect a newly received independence. Saddam Hussein was a feared and murderously oppressive terrorist within his own country for years. The same day as the letter, the paper had an article concerning Hussein’s impending trial. I am not going to list all the things he is accused of and he has not yet been found guilty of anything. However, we do know that he was involved in two wars. A war against Iran in the 1980’s and a war he began in the early 1990’s by invading a neighboring nation. Maybe, the libertines have forgotten their recent history. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
“Another soldier died today. Like many of the U.S. soldiers being killed in our name, he was just 19. He’ll never eat another meal with his family, work a civilian job, fall in love, marry, have children, grow old, or do any of those things that millions of Americans take for granted. His one chance at this life has been snuffed out far too early.”
I would rather that not a single American soldier die in Iraq. I would rather that not a single Iraqi child, mother, or father, youth, or adult die at the hands of terrorists in Iraq. Freedom is not free and is not without cost and sacrifice. However, that America soldier chose to serve his country by joining the military. That American soldier gave his life so that this whining woman could have the freedom to complain about his giving his life for her.
Another unborn baby dies every 20-30 seconds. Like all of the unborn babies being killed because of the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional edict—government sanctioned murder, he was not yet delivered from the womb. He’ll never eat a meal with his family, work any job, fall in love, marry, have children, grow old, or do any of those things that millions of Americans take for granted. His one chance at this life has been take by his own mother and a medical professional, who had sworn to protect life, before he was even born.
Abortion has murdered 32-45 million unborn babies who never had any choice. Fight the battle to stop the murder of our unborn if you are concerned about injustice. The unborn have no choice!
Here are some examples as printed in the letter to the editor. “Call your legislators and demand the return of our children, mostly poor, and minority youth.” I imagine that by the use of the term children she means sons and daughters because last I knew one could not join the military until age eighteen and at that age they are considered to be adults in our society. Secondly, last I knew the U.S. does not have a draft system. Therefore, every single person who is in the military has chosen to be in the military. Do these people believe we are still fighting the Vietnam Conflict? According to their arguments, they do.
“Our treasury is being plundered as we spend over a billion dollars a week on this quagmire, with no end in sight.” Here are my dictionary definitions of plunder (the verb). 1a: to take the goods of by force (as in war): pillage, sack 1b: to take by force or wrongfully: steal, loot 2: to make extensive use of as if by plundering: use or use up wrongfully: to commit robbery or looting. (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition; Merriam-Webster, Incorporated; Springfield, Massachusetts; 1995.) Does she know something that the rest of us do not? Last time I knew, all money being spent in the Conflict is coming from the U.S. treasury with the approval of Congress through the legal appropriation of money. If it is not being done legally, she should provide the evidence so the culprits can be tried for their crimes. If it is being done legally, by definition it can not be plundered.
Yes, war is expensive and some times takes a long time. Maybe, the terrorists should not have attacked us, but they did. If I remember correctly, during one of the years of World War II; we spent more money on the war than our entire GNP for that year. Should we have stopped fighting World War II and brought the military home because they were dying and because it was costing too much money. If we had, we wouldn’t be concerned about this conflict because we’d all probably be speaking German. Speaking of Germany, we still have troops stationed there. We have troops stationed in Japan. After fighting the Korean Conflict, another conflict where our men died and we spent tons of money, we still have troops there. Yes, we may have to have troops in Iraq in the foreseeable future, freedom and democracy demand sacrifice. Sacrifice that most of us would prefer not to make but sacrifice that must be made in order to protect the freedom we have. Why do these people conveniently forget that we are at war and we did not start the war. Of course, by their logic, if we lay down our arms the terrorists will also lay down their arms. NOT!!!
“But this was never about freedom; it’s an occupation in an oil-rich region where we have installed a government that is arguably more repressive than the one it replaced.” Is she serious? These comments would be laughable if they weren’t so ridiculous. How does she know the conflict is about oil and not about freedom? Who gave her this great insight? How did she get into the minds of our leaders? Is she at the discussion table where all this evil plotting and planning is going on? Actually, if it is about oil, we should be invading Canada. We get more oil from them that any other nation, they are closer, and I suspect would be easier to conquer. Man, our leaders just are not bright enough to know who to attack for our oil.?!
By the way, the same ridiculous and untrue argument was used during the Vietnam Conflict. It’s cheaper to buy the oil that it is to fight wars over it. Plus, the history of the U.S. is not to control conquered territory but to turn them into democracies or at least try—Germany, Japan, Afghanistan, Iraq. The day the letter was printed the front page story was the election to approve the new Iraqi Constitution. (Of course, according to these libertines all this is just the trappings of democracy; Iraq is not capable of being democratic according to them and therefore we should not waste our time trying.)
The one line that infuriates me most is this: “we have installed a government that is arguably more repressive than the one it replaced.” Does she seriously believe that we are so stupid and gullible to believe that the present democratically elected Iraqi government is more repressive than Saddam Hussein’s government? The present government is fighting a war to protect a newly received independence. Saddam Hussein was a feared and murderously oppressive terrorist within his own country for years. The same day as the letter, the paper had an article concerning Hussein’s impending trial. I am not going to list all the things he is accused of and he has not yet been found guilty of anything. However, we do know that he was involved in two wars. A war against Iran in the 1980’s and a war he began in the early 1990’s by invading a neighboring nation. Maybe, the libertines have forgotten their recent history. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
“Another soldier died today. Like many of the U.S. soldiers being killed in our name, he was just 19. He’ll never eat another meal with his family, work a civilian job, fall in love, marry, have children, grow old, or do any of those things that millions of Americans take for granted. His one chance at this life has been snuffed out far too early.”
I would rather that not a single American soldier die in Iraq. I would rather that not a single Iraqi child, mother, or father, youth, or adult die at the hands of terrorists in Iraq. Freedom is not free and is not without cost and sacrifice. However, that America soldier chose to serve his country by joining the military. That American soldier gave his life so that this whining woman could have the freedom to complain about his giving his life for her.
Another unborn baby dies every 20-30 seconds. Like all of the unborn babies being killed because of the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional edict—government sanctioned murder, he was not yet delivered from the womb. He’ll never eat a meal with his family, work any job, fall in love, marry, have children, grow old, or do any of those things that millions of Americans take for granted. His one chance at this life has been take by his own mother and a medical professional, who had sworn to protect life, before he was even born.
Abortion has murdered 32-45 million unborn babies who never had any choice. Fight the battle to stop the murder of our unborn if you are concerned about injustice. The unborn have no choice!
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